DK: If You Find a Rock, by Peggy Christian; AND What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins; AND Under the Snow, by Melissa Stewart; AND if still more time, Just Look, by Tana Hoban

K: Moon, by Steve Tomecek; AND Astronaut Handbook, by Meghan McCarthy; OR Boy, Were We Wrong About the Solar System, by Kathleen V. Kudlinksi (all borrowed from the County of Los Angeles Public Library)

1st: Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs, by Kathleen V. Kudlinski: AND (if time) Great Big Guinea Pigs, by Susan L. Roth

2nd: Rocks in His Head, by Carol Otis Hurst; AND (if time) The Secret Science Project that Almost Ate the School, by Judy Sierra

3rd: My Light, by Molly Bang

4th: The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo T. Farnsworth, by Kathleen Krull; OR The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins, by Barbara Kerley

5th: Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas, by Cheryl Bardoe (borrowed from the County of Los Angeles Public Library)

DK: This Is the Rain, by Lola M. Schaeffer; The Rain Came Down, by David Shannon; Misery Moo, by Jeanne WillisK: Mother to Tigers, by George Ella Lyon1st: Stand Straight Ella Kate: The True Story of a Real Giant, by Kate Klise & M. Sarah Klise2nd: Show Way, by Jacqueline Woodson3rd: Liberty’s Voice: The Story of Emma Lazarus, by Erica Silverman4th: Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai, by Claire A. Nivola5th: Dust Devil, by Anne Isaacs

DK: King Puck, by Michael Garland; Baseball Hour, by Carol Nevius; Casey Back at Bat, by Dan GutmanK: King Puck, by Michael Garland1st: Bottle Houses: The Creative World of Grandma Prisbrey, by Melissa Ethridge Slaymaker2nd: Harp o’ Gold OR Traveling Tom and the Leprechaun, both by Teresa Bateman3rd: Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein, by Don Brown (Hooper); The Babe and I, by David Adler (Hunt); Fiona’s Luck, by Teresa Bateman (Horowitz, Moreno)4th: Tuff Fluff: The Case of Duckie’s Missing Brain, by Scott Nash, OR The Brain, by Seymour Simon; and internet brain resources5th: The Brain, by Seymour Simon; excerpt from Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story about Brain Science, by John Fleischman; other print and internet resources about the brain

Neuroscience for Kidsan extensive site related to the brain and neuroscience maintained by Eric H. Chudler, Ph.D."BrainWorks," with Eric H. Chudler, Ph.D., on University of Washingon TV. This is a 28-minute video for children about the brain, including a demonstration by an anesthesiologist, demonstration of how an EEG is done, and a scientist explaining the parts of a human brain.